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Re: [Tigers] Con rods

To: owain.lloyd@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Con rods
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:23:03 -0800
302 and 5.0L all have 3.00 stroke

mayf
Owain Lloyd wrote:

>260 = 2.87 stroke / 3.8 bore
>289 = 2.87 stroke / 4 bore
>302 = 3.06? stroke / 4 bore
>
>that's why 260 pistons are hard to get relative to 289 pistons.  because 289
>has 302 piston sizes.
>
>also, i _think_ 289 hipo rod is same dimensions as boss 302 rod, as boss 302
>used a different crank but i could be wrong.  just something i remembered
>reading.
>
>
>On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Tony Somebody <achd73@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Owain- does the 260 and 289 have the same stroke. I was thinking 260s have
>>longer
>>rods ?????????????
>>--- On *Tue, 12/8/09, Owain Lloyd <owain.lloyd@gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>>From: Owain Lloyd <owain.lloyd@gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Tigers] Con rods
>>To: "Athena Scott" <ascott@globalplastics.co.zw>
>>Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
>>Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 8:29 AM
>>
>>i thought 260 and 289 rods were the same with the exception of the 289
>>hipo?
>>
>>pretty sure they are interchangeable but perhaps the 289 ones were
>>better...
>>
>>others will no doubt chime in with better info but i don't think it would
>>be
>>top of my list.  are you planning on racing it too?
>>
>>On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Athena Scott
>><ascott@globalplastics.co.zw<http://us.mc304.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ascott@globalplastics.co.zw>
>>    
>>
>>>wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>I bought a Tiger with a 260 motor.  It could have been raced, and I am
>>>      
>>>
>>told
>>    
>>
>>>the con rods on the 260 are weak and I should change to 289 con rods.
>>>      
>>>
>>This
>>    
>>
>>>may have happened already.  Can anybody tell me how I can distinguish
>>>between the 260 con rod numbers as opposed to the 289 con rods?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Derek Scott
>>>
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